One thing that is difficult to swallow when you are sober, and just merrily scooting along, is when a hiccup occurs. It kind of shakes your day up. It's that moment when someone brings up something from your past and you have to remind yourself that who you are today is nothing like the person from yesterday, and hopefully people forgive you.

I woke up in the best mood with a sense of a light radiating from my soul. I am feeling on top of the world. I drop off my daughter at...